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This is a recent discovery I have found and take no credit for its findings, I only want to share it with as many people as possible. This is a wonderful way to absolutely create a pure air environment for your home which will keep you healthy.
Following these steps, you can never open a window for the rest of you life and always have the freshest air!
Things You'll Need:
Areca Palm
Mother-in-laws Tongue
Money Plant (not money tree)
Purchase Areca Palm Plants (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens (Areca lutescens)) and place in living room. You need four (4) shoulder height plants per person. These plants are some of the best and most common which remove CO2 from the air and convert it to oxygen.Clean the leaves daily, water often, keep in sunlight, but too much may burn the leaves. Bring outside every couple of months.
How to Care for an Areca Palm
Chrysalidocarpus lutescen, or the Areca palm, whose green feathering fronds fan out from several trunks makes a lovely plant for the home or office. With the correct amount of watering, soil maintenance and lighting, this species makes an aesthetically pleasing houseplant. However, it is common for the palms leaves to droop and turn yellowish brown over time. Read on to learn how to properly care for your Areca palm to make the most out of its tropical elegance and flair.
Instructions
Step 1
Select a healthy Areca palm from the plant store by examining it for sturdy trunks, green leaves free from yellowing tips and new leaf growth toward the base. Check the leaves for small black spots which indicate insect damage. Upon purchase, the plant’s shoots should stand relatively upright. They do tend to yellow and spread out after time in your home
Step 2
Place your Areca palm in a room with medium to high lighting. In other words, it should be bright; but they should not necessarily be in direct light. Too much sun can yellow the leaves. However, placing the Areca palm near a cold, dim north-facing window does not give the plant enough sunlight.
Step 3
Water the palm often. Make sure the soil is well-moistened. The plant’s soil should never be allowed to totally dry out. On the other hand, if the plant rests in water or is over-saturated, the roots will rot. You can also mist water on the leaves to improve their appearance and well-being.
Step 4
Fertilize your Areca palm a few times a year to keep the soil rich in nutrients. Your local horticulturist may recommend a soil mixture of peat moss, coarse sand and garden loam.
Mother-in-laws Tongue 
Buy Mother-in-laws tongue or Snake plant (Sansevieria trifasciata) and place in your bedroom. You will need six(6) to eight (8) waist height plants per person. These plants remove CO2 and convert it into oxygen at night. This is essential for overall air quality. Along with Areca Palm, you will be converting CO2 into oxygen 24 hours a day. Clean leaves once a week, keep in low light or bright shade, water every few days. Watch pets and children. The sap can be toxic if chewed and ingested.
SPECIES AND CULTIVARS
Sansevieria trifasciata, also called snake plant, mother-in-law's tongue, or common sansevieria, has up to 6 leaves per rosette. Mature leaves are dark green with light gray-green cross-banding, and usually range between 2.5 and 3 feet in length and 2 to 2.8 inches in width. Leaves which develop under bright light out of doors or in bright greenhouses have prominent light cross-bands, while those which develop under 2000 foot-candles or less, or are held under low light intensities, have nearly solid dark green leaves.
Propagation by Division
In Central Florida and parts of South Florida, Sansevieria are grown in greenhouses or in shadehouses lined with polyethylene and heated during winter. Plants are grown from division of stock or from leaf cuttings, depending upon the cultivar and size plant desired. Stock bed width and harvesting procedures are similar to open-field production. One exception is that the sandy soil is usually rinsed from roots prior to packing, a procedure not usually required when plants are grown in limerock.
Sandy field soils used for ground beds should be amended with 15 to 20 percent peat incorporated into the upper 4 inches to improve water holding and cation exchange capacity. The pH of most sandy ground beds in central Florida ranges between 5.5 and 6.8.
Research has shown that S. trifasciata growing in beds of sand and peat in central Florida will yield 24 or more plants per square foot per year, with an average weight of 0.29 pound per plant. Nonvariegated plants are generally more productive than variegated cultivars of the same species.
Money Plant
Buy Money Plants, also known as Pothos or Silver Vine (Epipremnum aureum) and place randomly. There is no recommended amount of these plants, but they are used to remove Formaldehyde, Xylene, and Benzene. Place one or two in every room for maximum effect. Keep in low light as direct sunlight can burn leaves, water often and wipe leaves when visibly dirty.How to Germinate a Epipremnum Aureum (Devil's Ivy) Plant
Epipremnum aureum plants can sometimes to be called golden pothos, devil’s ivy, silver vine or money plant. Epipremnum is a popular green house plant. They are easy to grow and maintain. You can even use a shoot or shoots from the plant to spout roots without using soil.
Step 1
First get a vase that you wish to grow your pothos plant in
Step 2
Next select glass rocks of choice and color to fill the vase
Step 3
Next you are going to want to make sure you are satisfied with the arrangement of your plant(s) and then fill the vase with water that is not to hot or not to cold. Try to keep the climate of your water at room temperature to avoid shocking the plant.
Step 4
Put your newly put together house plant on display and wait for roots to grow. After the roots have formed you can move the devil’s ivy into soil or keep it in the vase filled with water and glass stone if you wish.
How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air - TED 2009 TalkView more documents from jaymeattle.
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